The Impact Of The Pre-Columbian Exchange On Native Americans

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Five hundred years ago, Europeans stumbled on the American continents. This forever altered the future of both the Old World and the New World. In the Pre-Columbian era, the European and Native American exchanged cultures, ideas, and traded items. The encounter of had a deep influence on both cultures.Europeans brought diseases, Native Americans brought food, and there were exchanges in livestock. Life in the Americas changed drastically and dramatically with the coming of the Europeans. As Europeans came into the Americas, they made a tremendous impact on the Native Americans. Some of the long term effects of this contact are the Columbian Exchange, in which people, diseases, foods, and animals moved across the globe. Some of the earliest

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